A Water Garden: Celebrating the Beauty of Nature

Nature, as the major consideration of the Organic Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, has constantly been favored as a path for a pure soul to communicate with the spiritual. Inspired by Wright's Organic Architecture and Traditional Chinese Garden, this thesis celebrates the beauty of Nature in Pandapas Pond, Giles County, VA, where a "Water Garden" is created on the open space defined by its water. Formally, the whole garden complex takes the inspiration from lotus flowers floating on the water, which could be thought of as an "organic system of architecture."

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Architecture

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Architecture

Department dc:contributor.department

Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Zhao, Tianming

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Rodriguez-Camilloni, Humberto L.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Dugas, David
• Gartner, Howard Scott

• nature
• water garden
• organic architecture
• bamboo structure

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:21841

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/92872